@mindpilot What used to be called middle class. I get you. I’m not trying to brag either, though there’s always someone who’ll take it that way.

I will say that being away from my ergonomically incorrect work station in the office has done wonders for my back–it actually felt weird when some aches and pains I was so used to having all the time…[Read more]

@mindpilot I respect you for admitting that you had some luck. One problem I have with some of the comfortable is they act like they got it all exclusively through their own efforts, which is almost never true. An old friend of mine only recently admitted that he had stocks because he had gotten a significant inheritance, and that he had also…[Read more]

It says that an average of 28 percent of the population of the world deems it fine to beat their wives/girlfriends. What percentage of that is women that have those beliefs isn’t given in that figure directly.

Yep – this is what the climate science has been saying for decades. It is also what the “Limits to Growth” said back in the 1970s. We have known the truth for a very, very long time. My favorite quote on the topic comes from Biologist Kristine Mattis in her article Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences .…[Read more]

@mindpilot To my knowledge, the Saudis do not have their own flight schools. They pay other people for those. As for as their Air Force pilots are concerned, they’ve been training at American bases on American soil since at least the 1970s.

His entire schtick is founded on a worldview that is maintained through deceitful propaganda. When I became aware of that, he was no longer funny to me. Humor doesn’t work without a common view of the subject matter. Now I see him as a propagandist, in service to the political establishment.

@mindpilot Why now? Why this? I speculate it was two things. First, Biden himself made it clear he was in favor of impeachment. He was probably just pissed off at Trump and didn’t think about how it would expose his own corruption, but then again Joe’s never been the brightest bulb in the ceiling. He’s also a rich, arrogant SOB.

Yes indeed. Which rights are the more important? One’s right to privacy while walking is indeed important but might become less important if a surveillance drone is following a nearby car-jacker hell bent on running innocent pedestrians over.

I get this idea of priorities. What I do not get is Conservetive priorities.